Worlds strongest man comes to Gaborone

After successfully hosting the event in Kasane for the first time last year, Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) will once again host the highly televised event Worlds Strongest Man in Gaborone from May 20 to 28, 2017.

This year, Gaborone will host the two-legged events, which include the qualifying round on May 20 to 23, 2017. The 30 strongest men in the world will gather to compete for just 10 places in the final.

Current champion Brian Shaw and ydrūnas Savickas will battle it out and the winner will equal Mariusz Pudzianowski Poland with five WSM titles.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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